Equinox

$5.00

In stock: 25

'Equinox' is a mixture of Winter and Spring Flowering types, which will enable you to have flowers over a greatly extended season. A range of self and bicoloured types. Can be sowed year-round. Approximately 25 seeds per packet.

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WINTER FLOWERING SWEET PEAS

Although the original, wild Sweet Pea, Lathyrus odoratus, from which all Sweet Peas have been derived was
summer flowering, strains have been developed that are able to flower at different times of the year.
This is controlled by the length of daylight hours, which varies both by season and geographic location.
As a rule of thumb, Summer Flowering strains require 12 hours daylight to initiate flowering, Spring
Flowering strains require 11 hours, while Winter Flowering strains require only 10 hours.

SPRING & SUMMER FLOWERING SWEET PEAS

Spring Flowering types are best sown in the autumn while Summer Flowering types are best
sown from mid winter in areas with mild winters like those experienced in Northern New
Zealand. Spring and Summer types produce more sturdy plants, which produce strong basal
shoots that soon take over from the primary shoot. Notwithstanding both the Winter and
Spring strains perform very well if sown at the same time as the Summer types.

Scented SWEET PEAS

Scent is a difficult characteristic to breed. Expression of scent is very much dependant on
temperature and humidity, while different people have differing ability to detect scent.
Notwithstanding, Keith's work in combining the colours of the ancestral cultivars with bigger
flowers and longer stems has also resulted in strongly perfumed cultivars. His 'High Scent'
is recognised as the world benchmark for scent. This has smaller flowers with a clamped keel,
but new introduction 'High Society' combines a waved, crisp white ground picotee edged pink flower
with strong scent.

NO SOAKING REQUIRED

Very frequently, home gardeners are advised to soak seed overnight before sowing. This is unnecessary
and potentially harmful for any hand harvested seed obtained from this website. Because of harvesting
methods, seed from field production can on occasion result in hard seed coats, which delays or
prevents germination. This is why the idea that seed needs to be soaked to identify hard seed
has arisen.